The council is don’t bring it to the conflict. It can be really tricky and really hard to do in the heat of the moment when things are just getting amped up and then boom, all of a sudden five minutes later you’re like, how did we get here from there? Like, we were having a fight but now we’re in World War III. What is going on? How did we get here? Maybe the mocker and maybe we can learn from our missteps because it’s never worked out because doesn’t work out. We have to go into a conflict with a good and open heart believing in the good of the one with whom we are in conflict. We have to come believing that our hearts are good towards each other and we want to solve a problem. If that’s not true that gets unveiled pretty quickly. And if the mocker enters into the story then the truth is that it was never a problem to solve. It was always a battle to fight. I mean, there’s nothing to defend if you’re not being attacked. And if we can start from this even place that our hearts are good towards each other and we have a problem to solve, and if we can keep our focus on that then if the mocker shows up, it looks like the fool that it is, and we may find that we’re being the mouthpiece. So, let’s…let’s just take this ancient wisdom to heart. It’s coming to us from the word of God. Let’s take it to heart and just imagine what life might look like with…how many hours of anxiety and grief that we can get back if we start resolving conflicts without bringing the mocker into the conversation.
Prayer:
Holy Spirit come into this. We are counselled over and over about the things that we say and the power in our words. And here we are looking at ancient wisdom from Proverbs telling us what we already know to be true. And since we’re reading from the book of Proverbs this has been a truth that has stood the test of time for thousands of years. This is true of we human beings. We need to be in control and so we’re willing to dominate when what the gospel offers us is surrender. Surrender to the Almighty, the all-powerful one so that we can appropriately resolve conflict and love one another. Come Holy Spirit. Teach us what to do with the mocker within us we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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